A step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics

This is like posting "Landing on Mars" and all you did was catch a reusable rocket.

I think the "step towards being an inter planetary species" as a result of catching a re-usable rocket might have merit in that it makes construction of things in outer space easier (although that's probably a charitable interpretation of the statement).

My take on the Spacex is Mars habitation project is that Musk will put a bunch of edgelords on Mars, and then not really be able to follow up with adequate supply lines and the operation will be offline for a hundred years or so while the climate settles down. The people who live on Mars will then have been there alone for a century and in the 2100s we will send a follow up mission with hilarious consequences.

Thunderf00t, is that you?

You don't need to be thunderfoot to understand that pretending you will start to colonize mars in the next years lies somewhere between daydreaming and scamming.

Although I like when thunderfoot compare the archives of what musk said with what actually happened

The punchline is that everyone here thought being called "thunderf00t" was a compliment, even though I meant it as an example of someone who is consistently proven wrong at every turn for casting shade on Musk's tech ambitions. It seems HN's original techno-optimist hacker ethos is dead in the grave.